pt. 1. Romantic attitudes: themes and judgment: Historian as romantic man of letters -- Nature, progress, and moral judgment -- pt. 2. Conventional characters: individuals and races: Representative men -- Teutonic germs -- Priestcraft and Catholicism -- Infidel: vanishing races -- pt. 3. Achievement: history as romantic art: Conquest of Mexico -- Rise of the Dutch republic -- Montcalm and Wolfe -- Conclusion.